[cjfd]

The short summary of it being that these people are beyond terrible at giving names to things.

[RobotToaster]

Programmers and engineers should never be allowed to name things.

I say that as a programmer and engineer.

[chuckadams]

"We suck at naming things" -- Bjarne Stroustrup, in a talk about SFINAE

[PunchyHamster]

On one side I agree. On other side I look how marketing people name things and I think we're still better off

Imagine if next edition of GCC, released in 2026 was named 2027. Then it was GCC One. Then GCC 720. Then GCC XE. Then just plain GCC. Then GCC Teams

[mikestew]

And then finally…GNU 720 AssistantDriver.

(Tip of the hat to Microsoft’s marketing teams.)

[kelvinjps10]

The python community has the habit of giving short names for things